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Re el for Ooiling- Wire-Rods. No. 224,942.

Ptented .Feb.'2 4, 18 80.

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Reel for Coiling Wire-Rods.

No..224, 942. 7 Patented Feb; 24, 1880.

* I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. MORGAN AND FRED H. DANIELS, OF WORCESTER, MASS; SAID DANIELS ASSIGNOR TC VVASHBURN 8t MCEN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

REEL FORCOILING WIRE RODS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,942, dated February 24, 1880.

Application filed February 20, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHAS. H. MORGAN and FRED H. DANIELS, both of the city and county of Worcester, andCommonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reels for Automatically I Coiling Wire Rods; and we do hereby declare I that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, andin which?- Figure 1 represents a top or plan view of a wirerod-coiling machine embracing our said I improvements. Fig. 2 represents a rear or I 5 end view of the machine, looking in the direction indicated by arrow 1, Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 represents, upon an enlarged scale, a side view of the same, looking in the direction indicated by arrow 2, Fig. 1.

120 To enable those skilled in the art to which our invention belongs to make and use the same, we will proceed to describe it more in detail.

In the drawings, A represents a section of 2 5 fioorin g, which is supported, by means of stand ards or posts B and C 0', upon a foundation or bed, D. Upon flooring A are arranged and secured housingsE E, upon which, in turn, are

supported finishing-rolls FF, arranged to turn I 0 in the same.

The reels G G of the machine are secured to the upper ends of fixed vertical shafts H H, which are secured in the slotted ends of a retatable supporting-frame, I, arranged to turn 5 upon standard or support 0..

Upon the under side of rotatable frame I is, in this instance, formed orsecured a bevel friction wheel or pulley, J, which rests upon and is operated by a smaller bevel frictiono pulley, K, secured upon the end of a horizontal shaft, L, which is arranged to turn in bearings M M, secured to foundation D, being, in turn, driven by means of driving wheel or pul- 1 ley N, secured upon its outer end, which may be connected with any suitable and convenient driving-power, or may be operated by a hand-crank, N, or in any other suitable manner.

In lieu of friction-wheelsJ and K, bevelgears maybe employed to operate reel-frame 1.

Reels G G are provided with ordinary coilholding arms I), and also with tubular flanges c, which extend up from the base G of the reela little above the ends of the reelarms, as fully indicated in the drawings, the purpose of the tubular flanges 0 being to prevent the rods from leaving or escaping from the action of the reels, and also to protect the fin I ished rod from the cooling action-of the atmosphere, in which caseless annealing of the rod is required.

To further guardagainst the rods becoming suddenly cooled off, a plate or cover, P, is arranged over the place where the rods are coiled upon the reels, so that it will just clear the tops of the sides 0 of said reels. Plate P is supported and arranged to turn in said position by being secured to the lower ends of radial serpentine-shaped arms Q and It, which, in turn, are secured to the hub S of a driving pulley, T, arranged to turn in a suitable hearing supported by standards C C.

' Cover P is prevented from wabbling about by means of friction-wheels P, which bear and turn against a rim, P formed upon the top of said cover near its outer edge. Wheels P are fitted to turn loosely upon standards We are aware that said Charles H. Morgan has a pending application in which he claims a reel having two sets of arms, and we jointly do not claim said invention.

Arm R is made hollow, as represented by dotted lines, Fig. 3, and thereby serves the purpose not only of assisting to support cover 8 5 P, but also, by being inserted in the center of the hub-bearing piece S of pulley T, as a guide-pipe for conducting the rod as it passes forward to the reel, as hereinafter described.

Pulley T may be driven to turn guidepipe 0 R and cover P by means of a belt, T passed around a pulley, T, secured upon a drivingshaft, V, as represented in the drawings; or, if preferred, bevel-gears or any other suita ble and convenient method may be employed. 5

Itotatable frame I is held in position, after one of the reels has been adjusted so as to come under the center of cover P, by means of a flat spring, W, (secured at d to foundation D,) which bears upon the under side of said frame, the same being grooved out, as represented by dotted lines 0 c, Fig. 3, so that it will not easily slip 011 of the spring.

The operation of coiling a rod upon one of the reels of the machine may be briefly summed up thus: As the finished wire rod passes forward from between the last set or finishing-rolls F F of a continuous or other rod-rolling mill, it first enters and passes through a horizontal guide-pipe, X, (bent down at its outer end, as represented in Fig. 3, and which is secured to a plate, Y, which, in turn, is secured to housings E E,) thence perpendicularly into and through serpentine-shaped guide-pipe R, which is turned or rotated with cover P in the direction represented by arrows in the'drawings. The rod, as it leaves the end of the serpentine guide-pipe R, will be evenly deposited or laid around the arms I) of the reel in consequence of the rotary motion of cover P and guide-pipe R. The coil having been completed, the attendant then rotates or causes to be rotated reetframe I, so as to bring the empty reel under cover P and guide-pipe lt, preparatory to coiling the next rod.

If preferred, instead of coiling the rods around arms I) on reels G G, the same may be deposited in a deep vessel, resembling an annealing-pot, around a central core or blade arranged in the same, which may be removed when filled, with the coils upon thesame, by means of a crane, or in any other suitable and convenient manner.

Those skilled in the art to which ourin'vention belongs will readily perceive the great practical advai'itages resulting'from arranging and constructing a wire-rod-coiling maclosed during the operation of coiling, they 5 are not exposed to cold currents of air, thus requiring less annealing, consequently saving much time and expense in the manufacture of iron and steel rods.

Havingdescribed our improvementsin reels for automatically coiling Wire rods, what we claim therein as new and of our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. The combination,with the finishing-rolls of a wirc-rod-rolling mill, of a guiding pipe or tube, X, and rotating coiling pipe or tube R, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination, with the reels G G, arranged upon a rotatable frame in a wirerollin g mill, of the rotatable cover 1?, guide-tube R, and the mechanism for causing the cover and tube to rotate, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

CHAS. H. MORGAN. FRED H. DANIELS, 

